Warlock (1959)
Mike Weaver
mike.weaver at zen.co.uk
Sun Apr 16 08:01:11 CDT 2006
At 02:00 16/04/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Elitist who knows difference between pulp fiction and literature also
>knows difference between shit and shinola..
>
>Just kidding . . . .
Difference is there is no continuum twixt shit & shinola, like there is
between pulp and lit. Warlock may contain elements derived from the pulps
but it does more with them than sell a hod load of books. Pynchon has
followed the same track, but gone a whole lot further, combining warping
and mutating pulp conventions, but tending to display the same weakness,
constructed as opposed to evolved characters.
Happy hols y'all
Mike
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